Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Cryptography team within Security you'll act as a primary execution anchor for our most critical regulatory and cryptographic initiatives. This team is the deep-expertise center for Coinbase's Tier-0 cryptographic infrastructure including the foundational Multi-Party Computation (MPC) engine which secures 99% of assets under custody. You'll lead the development of highly sensitive high-availability services that directly protect customer assets and ensure global regulatory compliance.

What you'll do:

• Own the design implementation and end-to-end integration of critical cryptographic infrastructure including services required for global regulatory compliance
• Lead infrastructure setup continuous deployment and observability strategies to proactively resolve production incidents and ensure catastrophe recovery
• Drive complex integration challenges implementing secure and resilient infrastructure in a high-stakes zero-trust environment
• Shape engineering quality as a technical mentor promoting rigorous code reviews comprehensive design documents and best practices across the team
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders across Security Product and Policy to drive flawless execution

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with demonstrated success building highly available distributed systems
• Experience with applied cryptography Key Management Systems (KMS) or Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) with understanding of how to safely operate within security-critical environments (Multi-Party Computation experience strongly preferred)
• Extensive programming experience in systems languages such as Golang Java C++ or Rust with ability to operate in a Golang-heavy environment
• Proven track record operating Tier-0 or highly critical infrastructure where system resilience observability and security are absolute prerequisites including experience configuring cloud infrastructure as code across multiple isolated environments
• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects end-to-end removing technical blockers navigating regulatory requirements and mentoring team members
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency cost and quality.

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What We Do

Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets including trading staking safekeeping spending and fast free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.

Why Work With Us

We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world to help people control their own wealth start companies have financial privacy and participate in the global economy. And to get us there we focus build and move as a team.

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